Mapping neurological disease

MIT-developed algorithm extracts information from two different types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans

September 6, 2012

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Left: A functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan with cortical regions strongly correlated with motor activity highlighted in red. Right: A diffusion MRI scan with white-matter bundles passing through the corpus callosum shown in blue and red. (Credit: Marek Kubicki, Brigham and Womens’ Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that can analyze information from medical images to identify diseased areas of the brain and their connections with other regions./.../